Troubled by low fertility rates in southern provinces, the Ministry of Health has proposed relaxing the country’s two-child policy in order to allow Vietnamese parents to decide the number of children they want.

BTO – The Binh Thuan Sponsoring Fund for Children in coordination with Tam Duc Heart Hospital (Ho Chi Minh City) has recently held charity checkup to screen for congenital cardiac disease for children in Binh Thuan province. The beneficiaries are children, aging from birth to 18 years old and living in Binh Thuan province.

BTO – Chairman of Binh Thuan provincial People’s Committee has recently issued document to ask the department of Health to tightly monitor the developments of hand-foot-and-mouth disease in the province.

Health experts from 54 countries and international organisations gathered at a conference in the central coastal city of Da Nang on August 29 to strengthen cooperation and share approaches to prevent animal-to-human transmission diseases, including bird flu, Ebola and rabies.

The Department of Preventive Medicine has instructed health officials in provinces and cities nationwide to cooperate with education departments to strengthen cleanliness at schools to prevent outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease and dengue fever.

Vietnam aims to curb the annual ratio of infections and fatalities due to dengue below 0.09 percent by 2020 and early detect oral, breast, cervical and colorectal cancer in nearly 20 percent of people.

BTO – On July 26th 2017, the Department of Health of Binh Thuan province has observed a ceremony to announce State President’s Decision on conferring elite physicians and wrap up the first-half medical mission.

BTO – The department of Health of Binh Thuan has dispatched documents urging hospitals/medical centers across the province on the use of spinal anesthesia during caesarean section under the document No.3614/BYT-TE.

BTO- Department of Health on Wednesday morning (May 31) organized a meeting at Nguyen Tat Thanh Square (Phan Thiet city) to respond to World No Tobacco Day (May 31) under the theme “Tobacco-a threat to development”. The event converged as many as 400 local youth.

BTO- The Malaria - Goiter Control Center has recently distributed a plus of 2,000 sets of insecticide-treated mosquito nets in prevention of malaria for residents in Suoi Kiet commune (Tanh Linh district). The mosquito nets were dipped in medicals, specializing in minimize the risk of mosquito contact with mosquito net-users.

BTO- The people’s Committee of Binh Thuan provincial People’s Committee has recently promulgated a Decision No. 679/QD-UBND on time extensions for deploying and disbursing the total budget of VND 21.7 billion to invest MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine for the province’s general hospital. The received images will foster much valuable information for medical diagnostic and treatment.

Nearly 200 deprived children in the northern province of Ninh Binh were provided free cardiac examinations and consultancies by doctors from the National Heart Institute and provincial obstetrics and paediatrics hospital on March 12.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Heath has given the go-ahead for a plan to release over one million mosquitoes carrying the bacterium Wolbachia in Nha Trang City to establish a stable population of the dengue-neutralizing insects.

The 2017 Lunar New Year (Tet) and the spring festival season are coming, entailing concerns over food safety issues as this will be the time seeing the most consumption of food commodities in the year, particularly meat, fish, eggs, candies, wine, beer and soft drinks.

Ho Chi Minh City has 141 reported cases of Zika virus through December 20 in 23 districts, 18 of which are pregnant women who have contracted the mosquito-borne disease, reports the City Preventive Medicine Centre.

The number of new cancer diagnoses in Vietnam is forecast to hit 200,000 in 2020, nearly doubling from 126,000 cases in 2010, with health experts warning that the rise will add to the burden already weighing upon the healthcare system.

BTO – In the national Action Month for the Vietnamese Elderly, the provincial representative board for the elderly combined with Department of Health and the provincial Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union branch to offer free-of-charge medical check-ups and medicine for senior people in Song Phan commune-Ham Tan district.